Steve Coogan Project Leads Climate Spring Movie Development Slate

A Steve Coogan project about a London PR guru who greenwashes the reputations of the world’s worst polluters leads Climate Spring‘s movie development slate heading into EFM.

Climate Spring is seeking financing for The Good Life along with four other projects from a range of UK prodcos. The organization, which consults on and produces projects related to climate change, is also ramping up its TV development slate.

Coogan is leading and writing The Good Life. He will play the PR guru who discovers he only has a few months to live so tries to repair the damage in his professional and private life, starting with his estranged eco-activist daughter. Coogan is writing with James Handel and Matt Winn. Metro International is handling international sales.

Also on the slate is The American Can, which is based on a true story in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Wolf Border from Mr Bates producer AC Chapter One is a feature adaptation of multi award-winning Sarah Hall’s novel that explores the controversial reintroduction of a wolf pack into the British countryside. Then there is The Many Lives of James Lovelock, a biopic of the visionary British scientist who invented Gaia theory, based on the recently published book by biographer Jonathan Watts, and Little Red Hen, an allegorical horror film about who we want to bring with us into the new dawn, which comes from Bryony Kimmings.

Climate Spring said it is also ramping up a TV slate working with indies including New Pictures, Chapter One and Me + You Productions. The org has already consulted on shows such as ITV’s After the Flood and New Pictures’ The Petroleum Papers. Climate Spring said it is currently funding and co-financing development, supporting and consulting on more than 40 film and TV projects in a range of genres from crime to thriller to romantic comedy.

Climate Spring founder Lucy Stone said “the rapid expansion of our slate reflects an ever-increasing appetite – from audiences and industry alike – for stories that address the climate crisis in creative and innovative ways.” “At Climate Spring, we believe that a strong climate story doesn’t need to explicitly mention climate; it can explore the systemic causes and inspiring solutions, with climate as a lens to tell compelling, genre-driven narratives,” she added.